UN funding gaps: millions of people may be left without humanitarian aid in 2025
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The UN has requested гуманіт 47 billion in humanitarian aid for 32 countries in 2025. The current demand for 2024 is only 43% funded, which is one of the worst figures in history.
The Organization of the United Nations has requested 47 million dollars in additional assistance for 2025 to help people who are facing severe famine. Try to wash it down without profining it by half, pish UNN z posilannam on Reuters.
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Tom Fletcher, the new head of UN Humanitarian Aid, described it as "an unprecedented level of suffering". Next year, the organization plans to provide assistance to people in 32 countries around the world, including Ukraine, Sudan, Syria and the Hague, where wars continue.
"We need to reset our relationships with those who need help most on the planet," said Tom Fletcher.
The UN cut its 2024 request to 4 46 billion from 5 56 billion a year earlier, as donors ' "appetite" has faded, but is still only 43% funded, one of the worst figures in history. Washington has allocated more than половину 10 billion, about half of the funds received.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, humanitarian workers had to make a difficult choice, reducing food aid by 80% in Syria and water supply in cholera-prone Yemen.
However, such assistance is only a part of the total spending of the UN, which has not fulfilled its main budget for years due to unpaid contributions from countries.
Although Donald Trump suspended some UN spending during his first term, he left UN aid budgets intact. This time, representatives of humanitarian organizations and diplomats see this reduction as an opportunity.
The UN also said that one of the problems is that crises now last longer – an average of 10 years.
The head of the World Health Organization for emergency situations, Mike Ryan, said that some states are entering a "permanent state of crisis.
This year, the second and third donors to the UN aid budgets are Germany and the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union.
Charlotte Lente, secretary general of the Danish Refugee Council, said Europe's contributions are also in doubt as the funds go to defense.
"If the U.S. administration cuts its humanitarian funding, it will be harder to fill the growing needs gap," says Charlotte Slente.
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To restore degraded land and combat desertification, інвестувати 2.6 trillion should be invested by the end of the decade. The private sector currently provides only 6% of the necessary funding.
